Pilatus Aircraft Ltd PC-12/45
N781DL is a Pilatus Aircraft Ltd PC-12/45, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2000. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Rice Flying LLC, an LLC in Poplar Bluff, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 29, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 27, 2022.
Where is it now Last seen October 10 at 4:00 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Pilatus Aircraft Ltd
- Model
- PC-12/45 · all PC-12/45s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium with composite partsA mostly aluminium airframe with composite parts where they save weight: control surfaces, fairings, the tail or the rotor blades. Aluminium airframe; composite control surfaces and fairings. This is how the Pilatus PC-12 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 334
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurbopropFAA type of engine code 2 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · P&W Canada PT6A-67B · 1200 hp
- Seats
- 12
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- AA9493 (octal 52512223)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 29, 2023
- Expires
- June 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- June 29, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 27, 2022
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01387361
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rice Flying LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1968 County Road 337
Poplar Bluff, MO 63901-8833
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N781DL links to the rest of the register
- Pilatus PC-12 1,445 registered
- Pilatus Aircraft Ltd 1,361 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-67B 277 aircraft with this engine series · 1200 hp
- Rice Flying LLC 12 aircraft in the fleet
- Poplar Bluff, MO 37 aircraft registered in this town
- Poplar Bluff Regional Business · POF
- Missouri 5,813 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Pilatus PC-12 88 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Pilatus PC-12 1,658 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Pilatus PC-12 205 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-67B 2 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-67B 31 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Blkhd Angle, cracked · 1995-08-23
- Report filed on this aircraft: Hose, leaking · 1995-08-15
- Report filed on this aircraft: Bulkhead, cracked · 1995-07-13
- Where N781DL is now · Last seen October 10 at 4:00 pm.
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The public federal record on N781DL, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Rice Flying LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 29, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 27, 2022, 22 years after the 2000 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 334 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N781DL was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Lockheed L-1011-385-1 (serial 193A1003, cancelled January 25, 1996). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N781DL: Accident on August 24, 1995 at Pacific Ocean, PO: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Lockheed L-1011-385-1 · operated under 121
inadequate certification/approval of the airframe structure. Contributing was the lack of required inspections of the failure area.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data